Jean-Chrysostome Brauneis junior

Jean-Chrysostome Brauneis (also John Chrysostome Brauneis , born January 26, 1814 in Québec , † August 11, 1871 in Montreal ) was a Canadian composer, organist and music teacher.

Brauneis was trained by his father, the composer and conductor Jean-Chrysostome Brauneis , and studied in Europe from 1830 to 1833. From 1833 to 1844 he was organist at the Notre-Dame Church and until 1857 in the Saint-Jacques Cathedral in Montreal. He also taught music at the Institut des Soeurs de la Congrégation Notre-Dame for thirty years .

In 1837 he founded the Société de Musique ; since 1842 he offered courses in piano, guitar, harp, violin, singing and music theory. In addition, he worked as a conductor of a wind orchestra, as a piano tuner and importer of musical instruments.

In 1835 one of his masses was premiered. He also composed marches , polkas and waltzes , including the Royal Welcome Waltzes , which were written on the occasion of a visit by Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn , to Canada in 1869 . These were recorded in an orchestral version by Charles Cozens in 1987 by the Symphony Nova Scotia .

Works

• Mass , 1835
• Marche de la St. Jean Baptiste , 1848
• The Montreal Bazaar Polka , around 1848
• The Monklands Polka , 1849
• The Royal Welcome Waltzes , 1869

literature

• Jean-Chrysostome Brauneis junior . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).